612 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
Madgett, Naomi Long 323–325,
546
Madhubuti, Haki 48, 53, 57, 72,
325–327, 438, 492
Mad Man, The (Delany) 135
Magic City (Rhodes) 435
Major, Clarence 36, 43, 120,
327–328
Major, Marcus 328–329
Majors and Minors (Dunbar) 155,
320
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young
Black Man in America (McCall)
341, 342
Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black
Literature (Rowell) 89
Making Malcolm: The Myth and
Meaning of Malcolm X (Dyson)
162
“Making of a Writer, The: From the
Poets in the Kitchen” (Marshall)
337, 338
Malcolm X 329–331
Angelou (Maya) and 14
assassination of 24, 34, 331, 474
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
22–24, 311, 331
and Black Arts Movement 49
and Black Power 55, 56
Davis (Ossie) delivering eulogy
for 133
Dyson (Michael Eric) on 162
Guy (Rosa Cuthbert) and 219
Karenga (Maulana) and 294
Schuyler (George Samuel) on
451
works on 72, 239, 276, 311–312,
428, 439
Malcolm X (film) 311–312
Mama (McMillan) 351
Mama Day (Naylor) 327, 331–332,
387, 560
Mammy 332–333, 390, 446, 477,
558
Man Called White, A (White) 547,
548
Manchild in the Promised Land
(Brown) 12, 78, 333–334
Mandolin (Dove) 147
“Mandolin” (Dove) 147
Mandy Oxendine (Chesnutt) 99
“Man in the House, A” (Colter) 114
Man Most Worthy, A (Major) 329
Manning-Miller, Carmen L. 45
“Man of All Work” (Wright) 212
Manrique, Jaime 455–456
Man Who Cried I Am, The (Wil-
liams) 552
“Man Who Lived Underground,
The” (Wright) 567
“Man Who Was Not God, The”
(Jordan) 290
Many Thousands Gone (Fair) 179
“Mara” (Grimké) 216
“Ma Rainey” (Brown) 61, 476
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Wilson)
555, 556, 560
March on Washington 105, 304
Marcia (Steptoe) 481
Marcus in the High Grass (Gunn)
218
“Marie of the Cabin Club” (Petry)
412
Married Men (Weber) 537
Marrow of Tradition, The (Ches-
nutt) 98, 100–101, 335–336
Marshall, Paule 336–339, 505
Brown Girl, Brownstones 81,
336, 337
Martin, Reginald 47
Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance,
The (Lorde) 318
“Marvelous Land of Indefinitions,
The” (Thomas) 495
“Mary’s Convert” (Colter) 114
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence
(Dunbar-Nelson) 158
“Master’s Tools Will Never Dis-
mantle the Master’s House, The”
(Lorde) 318
Matter Is Life, The (Cooper) 118
Matthews, Charles 445–446
Matthews, James Newton 155
Maud Martha (Brooks) 74,
339–340
Mayfield, Julian 340–341
McCall, Nathan 341–343
McCreary, Kenneth 77
McDonald, Janet 343–344
McDowell, Deborah 404, 541
McElroy, Colleen Johnson 344–
346
McElroy, Tina. See Ansa, Tina
McElroyMcGrath, Abigail 282
McGruder, Aaron vii, 346–347
McKay, Claude 48, 71, 90, 347–
349, 379
Harlem Shadows 231–232, 347
Home to Harlem 115, 185,
250–251, 348
McKay, Nellie 423, 429
McKible, Adam 138
McKinley, Catherine E. 5–6, 212
McKinney-Whetstone, Diane
349–350
McKissick, Floyd 55
McMillan, Terry 43, 44, 118, 186–
187, 350–352
McPherson, James Alan 352–353
Me against the World (Tupac)
456–457
Mediated Messages and African
American Culture: Contemporary
Issues (Berry and Manning-
Miller) 44, 45
Medicine Man (Hernton) 246
Medina, Tony 83–84
Me Dying Trial (Powell) 418–419
“Meet” (Lorde) 318
memoirs
Along This Way (Johnson) 284
by Angelou (Maya) 13–14,
265–266
The Autobiography of Malcolm
X 22–24
The Autobiography of W. E. B.
DuBois (DuBois) 151
The Big Sea (Hughes) 45–46,
258
Black and Conservative (Schuy-
ler) 451
Black Boy (Wright) 50, 566
The Black Situation (Gayle) 200
Brothers and Keepers (Wide-
man) 74–75, 550
Coming of Age in Mississippi
(Moody) 364, 499
Crusade for Justice (Wells-Bar-
nett) 538
Dust Tracks on a Road (Hur-
ston) 159–160, 260
Fathering Words (Miller) 357
Gemini (Giovanni) 202
In Spite of the Handicap (Cor-
rothers) 122, 123